“It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.” JobsFilmWhiteTypeWalkingMarkSticksSilentI RealizedTiesPairsVillainMustacheSpatsNoblemenSilent FilmsWalking Sticks Author:Adolphe Menjou
“I supported Barack Obama originally. I supported him for reelection and the alternative of a Mitt Romney is very, very clear to everybody. And I think the president has done a good job in a number of areas. But one area that has concerned me from day one has been his reliance on Wall Street type people in terms of financial matters.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensMatterDoneJobsPresidentTermNumbersClearStreetsWallTypeAreasConcernedFinancialBarackAlternativesGood JobRelianceRomneyReelection Author:Bernie Sanders
“There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to get away from the manual labor and servant-type jobs, but there wasn't much else they were going to allow you [to] do.” PeopleJobsWhiteTypeLaborAthleteServantGet AwayManualsManual Labor Author:Hank Aaron
“I don't have a favorite cooking tool. In the kitchen, I always have my pencil and notebook in my hand. I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical. The pencil has a symbolic meaning for me. The type of person who carries a pencil around is the type of person who's open to change. Someone who walks around with a pen isn't; he's the opposite.” PersonsHandsJobsWalksCreativityCreativeTypeToolsOppositesCookingCooksKitchenCarriePensPencilsTheoreticalSymbolicNotebookSymbolic Meaning Author:Ferran Adria
“If you are smart, you never retire. You may retire from that job you have had for many years, but you will pick up another career for yourself of some type.” IfsYearsMayJobsSuccessCareersBuddhismTypeSmartPicksRetiring Author:Frederick Lenz
“All through time in Apple products, even from our very first ones, that's how he [Steve Jobs] looked at the world, that you don't really want a piece of technology, a certain type of chip. What you want is a solution to a problem in life, some cause, some issue that you want in your life that'll help you. And it's how do you make that almost one step - say it and it happens.” WorldWantFirstsHelpingProblemHappensJobsCertainCausesStepsTechnologyIssuesPiecesProductsTypeSolutionsWhat You WantApplesChipsRough TimesSolution To A ProblemProblems In Life Author:Steve Wozniak
“Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.” PeopleMadeTwoJobsWaitingDifficultWorkChanceDoorsMiddleMinutesTypeMonthsBirthProveSixLike MeExpertsSix MonthsInitialsHurryingDifficult QuestionsBlousesLooking For A Job Book:Mama Day: A Novel Source: Mama Day: A Novel
“it used to be almost the first question (just after 'Can you type?') in the standard female job interview: 'Are you now, or have you ever, contemplated marriage, motherhood, or the violent overthrow of the U.S. government?” FirstsGovernmentJobsUsedTypeStandardsFemaleMotherhoodViolentUsed To BeInterviewsJob Interview Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“I'm not a stereotypical professor type. I don't smoke a pipe and wear a tweedy jacket. I'm more like a student who stayed at the university for so long that they gave him a job to keep him out of trouble.” LongJobsTroubleStudentsTypeUniversitySmokeProfessorsJacketsPipe Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“At the current time we have no plans. I consider my job at this point, and my main responsibility, to make the Wii U and 3DS versions the best and the fullest experience possible. That said, once finished, it's the type of thing we could take into consideration, but for now, you could consider DLC as not being in the cards.” SaidJobsResponsibilityPlansTypeCurrentsFinishedVersionsCardsConsiderationWii Author:Masahiro Sakurai
“We understand that you have to create an environment where that those men and women who are entrepreneurs can risk their capital and have an opportunity to get a return on their investment. That's how jobs are created. And that's what Americans are looking for, is that type of vision.” MenJobsOpportunityVisionEnvironmentRiskTypeReturnMen And WomenEntrepreneurInvestment Author:Rick Perry